A Disappearing Number

A Disappearing Number at Novello Theatre

Why see A Disappearing Number?

This September, Complicite's multi-award winning production of A Disappearing Number will return to London for a limited season at the Novello Theatre.

This highly anticipated return to the capital will reunite the original cast of Simon McBurney's acclaimed production for 19 performances in the West End.

Staged with Complicite's characteristic elegance and startling visual originality, A Disappearing Number takes as its starting point one of the most mysterious and romantic collaborations of all time. In London a man attempts to unravel the secrets of his lover. In Bangalore a woman collapses on a train. In 1914 Englishman GH Hardy, Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, seeks to comprehend the ideas of the Indian prodigy, Srinivasa Ramanujan. A Disappearing Number weaves a provocative theatrical pattern about our relentless compulsion to understand.

A Disappearing Number has received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play (2008), the Evening Standard Award for Best Play and Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play (2007).

Key Information

Audience

A Disappearing Number is suitable for audiences aged 12 and upwards.

Run Time

1 hour and 55 minutes

Dates

Finished 25 Sep 2010

Cast

David Annen
Firdous Bamji
Paul Bhattacharjee
Hiren Chate
Divya Kasturi
Chetna Pandya
Saskia Reeves
Shane Shambhu

Creative

Author: Conceived and devised by Simon McBurney and the company
Director: Simon McBurney
Music By: Nitin Sawhney
Sound: Christopher Shutt
Lighting Designer: Paul Anderson
Costume: Christina Cunningham
Designer: Michael Levine
Producer: barbicanbite07, Ruhrfestspiele, Wiener Festwochen, Holland Festival, in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth

Awards

When A Disappearing Number was originally staged, it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, the Evening Standard Award for Best Play and the Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Play.

 

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